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📣 First three years of my PhD have culminated in this work now published at PLoS Computational Biology! 🥳 We take a deep dive into all the many ways we can slice n dice fMRI dynamics to quantify biologically relevant properties 🧠🧮 doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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'Before there was arXiv, there was Joanne Cohn (...) She started an informal exchange of string theory manuscripts that eventually became the arXiv preprint server, which has since revolutionized the way scientists share ideas and announce findings.' pubs.aip.org/physicstoday...

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The best present you can give to any writer is to review (no matter how short) their books online and to spread the word to other readers. I've just posted reviews for favourite recent reads and it gave me joy to do so. Merry Christmas! 💙📚 #books

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With @adamsmith.xyz and @thejonullman.bsky.social, we have compiled a set of profiles of 29 people in the "foundations of responsible computing" community ("mathematical research in computation and society writ large") who are on the faculty job market. Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1Hyvg... 1/3

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If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

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Montana Supreme Court, in 5-1 vote, affirms lower court decision in youth case of Held v. Montana: Climate change violates environmental rights clauses of state constitution; state law barring consideration of climate in setting energy policy is unconstitutional. Text: bit.ly/402eODH #EnergySky

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It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

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Next time you feel yourself compelled to mention statistical guarantees, talk about statistical oomph instead. Same vibes, less letters. Personally I’m holding out for “With a sinking heart, our method learns a tenuous mapping on past data we hope is related to future data.”

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Delicate language for talking about statistical guarantees statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/20/d...

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I created this Starter Pack for PhDs and Postdocs in Structural Biology to help connect with colleagues who share similar interests and concerns in the field. Feel free to recommend people or yourself! I'll be adding people 💪🏼😁 bsky.app/starter-pack...

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In case you haven't seen it yet, movement is one of the most interesting and well engineered toolkits working with pose tracking data like from sleap.ai! Strong recommend 🤙

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Humans are curious not just about the world, but also about their own minds. In our new paper, we describe a specific form of curiosity in which people strategically seek information not only about their decisions but also about the accuracy of their self-evaluations. psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

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🧵(1/n) I'm thrilled to announce that I published my very first! pre-print on BioRxiv. This work was co-supervised by Wilson Truccolo and Timothée Proix @ndlab.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧠🧪 #compneuro

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Out now in Nature from @behrenstimb.bsky.social and crew: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Understanding this kind of schematic pattern learning and transfer will be key, IMO, to moving towards models of what we might call "higher-order cognition" or "reasoning". 🧠📈 🧪

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Using EEG recordings, this study shows that memory retrieval is influenced by prior judgments, suggesting that attentional effects may affect neural retrieval states. @dorsolateralpfc.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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This summer, @lukfor.bsky.social and I migrated the Michigan Imputation Server to Nextflow. 2M genomes later, we can say it was a big success. As a Christmas gift, we’re excited to show you how to set up your own local server in under 10 minutes. ##freeimputation genepi.github.io/michigan-imp...

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Terrific! Paywalls are disappearing! No more 12 month embargo between when NIH funded work appears in a journal and when it becomes accessible to all (as of December 2025). www.nih.gov/about-nih/wh...

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I think many of the very wealthy have no clue how much stress the US healthcare system engenders for anyone who isn't a gazillionaire or from massive family wealth. Nor the extent that this quite reasonable concern actually hurts the national economy.

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Introductory thread sounds super-interesting. Looking forward to reading it.

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So impressed with @meredithmeredith.bsky.social at #WIREDBigInterview. I too didn’t realize Signal is 100% donation driven. Also love that she attributes usability, design, and “consumer-market fit” as foundational to their success.

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📣 New: AI depends on immense resources, mostly controlled by large companies.    This means "open" AI… isn't very open. 📄 From me, @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and @smw.bsky.social in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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'The job of leadership isn't to "reduce complexity" in the work itself but to create an environment where people can work effectively with complexity—where the right practices and boundaries reduce drag and make complex work fun, challenging, and productive.' --from the post by @johncutle.fish

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🦀 My "inheriting thread locals" aka "thread spawn hook" feature has been merged into #rustlang as an unstable feature! You can use it to automatically copy thread local state into new threads, which wasn't possible before. Available on Rustc nightly tomorrow! github.com/m-ou-se/rfcs...

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Spreadsheets. In the terminal. Yes. 📋 SheetsUI: A terminal based spreadsheet application. 🚀 Supports editing/saving entries with Vim key bindings! 🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/zaphar/sheet... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #spreadsheet #terminal #sheets #excel #commandli

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"It allows you to have almost the same syntax for named function arguments in Rust as you'd have in Python." bon-rs.com/blog/how-to-...

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Many organizations for women in tech and other under-represented groups have shut down the past few years like Women Who Code and Girls In Tech. One of the reasons cited is lack of funds If you are able to, please donate to organizations that support underrepresented people in tech 🧵

submitted 82 days ago • 6 comments

Rust #devs often go straight to atomics when talking concurrency. Built this message-passing framework to make fast, safe, and concurrent code more approachable for newcomers. Check it out if that sounds useful! 🦀 #rustlang #rust github.com/GovCraft/act...

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OK If we are moving to Bluesky I am rescuing my favourite ever twitter thread (Jan 2019). The renamed: Bluesky-sized history of neuroscience (biased by my interests)

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A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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"Acquiring musculoskeletal skills with curriculum-based reinforcement learning"

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I'm searching for a research assistant to help with our new "models of mood" effort. Great fit for someone pre-PhD. If you know someone who might be interested, please pass this job ad along - thanks! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui... What effort? This: www.nicolerust.com/thepivot

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New 716 hour EMG dataset just dropped ✨ ai.meta.com/blog/open-so...

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Naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain @viktorkewenig.bsky.social shows that, while concepts generally encode habitual experiences, the underlying neurobiological organisation is not fixed but depends dynamically on available contextual information. 👏🍾🐐 elifesciences.org/articles/91522

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